SkyWest – Chart Of The Day

The Chart of the Day belongs to SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW). I found the air transportation stock by using Barchart to sort the Russell 3000 Index stocks first for a Weighted Alpha above 50.00+ and then again for technical buy signals of 80% or better.

SkyWest, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary, SkyWest Airlines, Inc. , operates one of the larger regional airlines in the United States. SkyWest provides passenger and air freight service and completes over 880 daily flights. Pursuant to a joint marketing and code sharing agreement with Delta Airlines, Inc., SkyWest operates as a Delta Connection in certain SkyWest markets. SkyWest entered into a marketing and code sharing agreement with Continental Airlines, Inc. Which allows SkyWest to operate as a Continental Connection in certain markets in and out of Los Angeles.

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Barchart technical indicators:

100% Barchart technical buy signals

110.40+ Weighted Alpha

Trend Spotter buy signal

Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages

5 new highs and up 10.69% in the last month

Relative Strength Index 63.76%

Barchart computes a technical support level at 17.43

Recently traded at 19.09 with a 50 day moving average of 16.97

Fundamental factors:

Market Cap $986.57 million

P/E 11.19

Dividend yield .89%

Revenue expected to decrease 5.80% this year and another 3.40% next year

Earninings estimated to increase at an annual rate of 81.80% this year, an additional 5.00% next year but decrease an an annual rate of 18.70% for the next 5 years

In spite of these weak projections Wall Street anlaysts have 4 strong buy and 1 hold recommendation in place